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SSHFC opens Operation Algeria with D800,000

Barely hours after the secretary of state for Youth and Sports launched the marketing committee for the Operation Algeria campaign at the President Jammeh Joint Officers’ Mess in Kotu yesterday, the Social Security and Housing Finance Corporation boosted the team’s confidence after making the presentation of a cheque for D800: 00 (eight hundred thousand dalasis) as its contribution towards the facilitation of the Gambia Under 17 team’s participation in the event. Presenting the cheque to...

Gambian students back fromVenezuela speak

The Venezuela ambassador to the Gambia, Mrs Louder Perez, recently organised a briefing session for 7 Gambian students who had just returned from Venezuela, at the end of a 3 months intensive study in agriculture. The reception was hosted at the new Venezuelan Embassy complex in Kotu. The purpose of the briefing was to expose the students to the media so that they could share their knowledge with the wider Gambian community, as to the new skills and technologies that they acquired while in...

Gamcotrap trains security officers

Over fifty security officers last Friday attended a one-day training seminar on the theme "Management and Prevention of Gender Based Violation" at the Joint Officers Mess in Kotu. The seminar, organised by The Gambia Committee on Traditional Practices affecting The Health of Women and Children (GAMCOTRAP) in collaboration with UNFPA and the Women’s Bureau, was designed to build partnerships between civilians and security officers on the protection of women and children. It was also meant to...

UTG to get Department of Performing Arts

The University of The Gambia (UTG), on Friday, signed a memorandum of understating with the Norwegian College of Dance (DNBH) and the Education through Culture and Communication Organisation (ECCO), for the establishment of a Department of  Performing Arts at the University of The Gambia. The signing of the memorandum of understanding came at the closing of a four-day seminar held at the Sunset Beach Hotel in Kotu. This department is expected to offer courses such as music, dance, drama,...

‘Culture: integral in development’

Nancy Njie, the secretary of state for Tourism and Culture, has said that culture is becoming more recognised as an integral component in the country’s socio-economic process. SoS Njie made this remark as she delivered the opening statement yesterday at a four-day workshop on music, dance and drama, organised by the University of The Gambia (UTG), in collaboration with the Education through Culture and Communication Organisation (ECCO) and the Norwegian College of Dances, at the Sunset...

New NUGS executive takes over

The Executive members of the National Union of Gambia Students (NUGS), on Saturday, handed over authority to the incoming executive at a ceremony held at the Joint Officers Mess in Kotu. NUGS was formed in 2005, with the mandate to cater for the welfare of the students in The Gambia and to maintain all students under an umbrella of unionism with total commitment towards national developments. In his remarks, Ebrima Sanneh, UTG’s outgoing president of NUGS, outlined the vitality of the...

The Women Of Kotu South Gets A Public Pump

The communities of Kotu South were on Thursday 31 July blessed with a D240, 000 worth of a public pump. This community has for several years been yeaning for such a project until the arrival of the couple Mr. and Mrs.  Diana Malick Susso sometimes last year. The philanthropies saw the need and quickly came to the help of the community. The project was handed over to the community in a grand meeting. The deputy mayor of the Kanifing municipality, Mr. Yusupha Sanyang who deputized for the Lord...

Deeper Life UBS holds graduation ceremony

Deeper Life Upper Basic School, on Friday, held their first speech and prize giving ceremony at the school grounds in Kotu. Speaking at the occasion Mr J.A Benjamin, the principal of the school, advised the students to take their education seriously. He also expressed delight with the honour given to him as the  guest speaker of the occasion. He saluted the educationists and men of God who were around to add colour, prestige and glamour to the occasion, for their presence  made the programme...

PK’s NAKAM NAK Puff! Halake still supports Jammeh!

Dida Halake makes a rare response. It has just been brought to my notice that my friend PK Jarju recently wrote a piece called, sarcastically of course, “NAKAM NAK DIDA”. It is probably the cleverest thing I have seen from PK, although I may have missed much of his stuff, very unoriginally named, I hear, PK’s Beef. As the American Presidential candidate once asked “Where is the beef?” – so let us just call it PK’s Puff. Much of PK’s NAKAM NAK sarcasm is based around the fact that I am a...

Commit awards partners

Commit Information Technology, one of the leading players in The Gambia’s IT Industry, on Saturday, gave awards to various institutions and individuals in recognition of their invaluable contribution to the company over the years at a ceremony held at the company's premises in Kotu. Among the institutions awarded were The Gambia Ports Authority, Gambia Telecommunications Company Ltd, Gambia Teachers Credit Union, Reliance Financial Services, and OK Gambia. Individuals who were also awarded...